〔美国〕马伯里诉麦迪逊编者的话　判例在英美法系国家的法律中有着十分重要的地位。在当今许多大陆法系国家的司法实践中，判例的地位和作用也得到了承认和肯定。为了促进我国法学界对判例的研究，帮助读者对判例法有较多的了解，本刊从这一期开始，开辟“判例研究”专栏... [U.S.] Marbury v. Madison Editor’s Remarks Precedents have a very important place in the laws of Anglo-American legal systems. In the judicial practice of many civil law countries today, the status and role of precedent are also recognized and affirmed. In order to promote the jurisprudence of our country to study the precedents and help the readers know more about the case law, from the beginning of this issue, we open up the column of “case studies”.